Summer Tours: Resorts Most Wanted

Unlike previous years, Vietnamese travellers tend to go in group like family or company and resorts are the most preferred destinations. As Thailand is in chaos, many people choose domestic tours and they are willing to pay higher for staying at seaside resorts. Favourite destinations include Ha Long, Cat Ba, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Mui Ne and Phu Quoc.

 

Explaining this trend, Mr Dao Hong Thuong, Tour Operator of Vietsky International Travel, said children are on summer holiday and more families plan to go on holiday thanks to their higher living conditions and better services quality of resorts.

 

Holidaymakers this year prefer beautiful beaches, green parks and pleasant attractions at home and abroad. Vietravel, a leading tour operator in Vietnam, has surveyed a wide range of new destinations and launched more than 100 fantastic summer tours for travellers like “Phan Thiet - Mud Resort” (2 days, costing VND1.55 million), "Ta Cu - Mui Ne - Bun Khoang" (3 days, VND2.59 million), “Phan Thiet Golden Sand” (3 days, VND2.49 million).

 

To meet the diverse demand of visitors, Saigontourist this year introduces many different tours at the same time, specially Nha Trang. Travellers have many available options like Nha Trang - the beauty of sea and island (4 days, VND1.952-5.31 million), Phan Thiet - Nha Trang - Da Lat (6 days, VND3.648-8.559 million), Phan Thiet - Nha Trang (5 days, VND3.19-7.47 million), and Nha Trang - Ninh Chu - Da Lat (5 days, VND2.31-6.4 million). Especially, the company has exclusive products for people who have visited many times but still love this beautiful coastal city.

 

Saigontourist has designed the “Nha Trang - full of blue sky and sea” departing from Ho Chi Minh City (4 days, VND2.069-5.315 million, by coach). This new tour is totally different from regular Nha Trang tours. Tourists will visit Yang Bay Resort with many different attractive entertainments like fishing crocodile, watching swine racing court, exploring rock music instrument, discovering orchard gardens by tramcar, shooting crossbows; touring the recreational Wonder Park and sailing Nha Trang.

 

Fiditour also has its own summer plans with nearly 250 domestic tour programmes, including many to famous resorts like exploring Cua Lo, sightseeing central Vietnam like Hue - Da Nang - Ba Na - Hoi An, Da Nang - Hoi An - Ba Na - Hue - Truong Son - Phong Nha etc.

 

At present, according to Mr Dao Hong Thuong, it is very difficult to book flights to seaside destinations. Rooms at seaside resorts from central Vietnam to Mui Ne are thickly booked for July and August. Tourists are advised to make early plans and book services to reduce budgets and enjoy comfortable trips.

 

Summer is a holiday season in Vietnam and travel firms are competing with attractive promotions and competitive prices.

 

At the time of launching the new version of its website www.travel.com.vn, Vietravel has quickly deployed the "Click travel.com.vn” programme. Accordingly, travellers simply book inbound and outbound tours like Qui Nhon, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Phan Thiet (by train), Ban Me Thuot, Hanoi - Ha Long - Nannig - Guilin - Yangshuo on its website to win lucky tours with exceptionally low price of only VND1 million a tour.

 

Besides, at www.travel.com.vn, visitors can participate in the biggest promotion of the year called "Bustling Summer Tour - Winning the Car" from May 18 to August 15, 2010. This big promotion programme offers immediate discount coupons valued at VND50,000-150,000 and free inbound and outbound tours, a Yamaha Nouvo scooter a week and specially a Piaggio Vespa LX 125. Total prize value is up to VND2 billion.

 

Particularly, in response to national domestic tourism promotion programme launched by tourism authorities, Vietravel collaborated with Vietnam Airlines to launch a discount of VND2 million for visitors on northern tours from August 6.

 

Apart from promotions programmes, tourists can visit the Fiditour’s website at www.fiditour.com to join an online game show to win a South Korean couple tour, a Singapore double tour, a Hanoi tour and more than 200 other attractive prizes. Besides, the company also offers soft prices for central Vietnam tours like Hue - Da Nang - Ba Na - Hoi An (4 days, VND3.655 million), Da Nang - Hoi An - Ba Na - Hue - Truong Son - Phong Nha (5 days, VND4.555 million).

 

Saigontourist presents travel insurance with maximum coverage of VND60 million per person to domestic visitors. Customers also have chance to win five European tours worth nearly VND200 million each and high-valued prizes in a promotion programme from May 5 to August 1.